Black Ops III - Hotfix Notes: November

Since launch on Nov. 6, 2015, Treyarch Studios has released some of the first game “hotfixes” for Call of Duty®: Black Ops IIIon the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. According to Studio Design Director David Vonderhaar, these are not official patches; however, he unveiled some of the minor changes to the game settings and playlists.

https://twitter.com/Treyarch/status/664216055309438976

Vonderhaar stated how there was no need for “patch notes” on a simple hotfix, because they come out so frequently. “When we actually release a patch, we will lay it out more concisely… Patches (usually) roll up all previous Hotfix updates. Hotfixes happen so frequently that we are going to keep it casual because SANITY,” he mentioned from his Twitter account.

This makes sense for Treyarch, because it would have forced them to release a plethora of hotfix notes, which seems redundant. Nevertheless, eSportsNation will provide a monthly up-to-date recap on hotfix notes alongside our normal patch note articles, to keep the CoD eSports community informed on the simple, causal changes.

Here are the announced hotfixes so far:

33.11.12 – Nov. 10, 2015

Changes to the “Pro Series” playlist in Arena

Nuk3town moved to the “Chaos Moshpit” playlist

33.11.16 – Nov. 11, 2015

Challenge fixes

Map exploit fixes

Weapon prestige bug fixes

Fixed an issue allowing more than four players in a Zombies’ lobby

Fixed an issue for the EMP having an effect on a friendly Cerberus

33.14.16 – Nov. 11, 2015

Minor playlists updates for Arena

Penalty for team killing

33.16.18 – Nov. 11, 2015

Spawn fitnessing

Uplink time glitch fixed

Hardcore Domination and Kill Confirm added

Capture the Flag added into Arena Pro Series

33.18.20 – Nov. 12, 2015

Medal and Challenge fixes

Out of bounds exploit

Arena Capture the Flag win condition

Nerfed

Gorgon

XR-2

Pharo

VMP

Haymaker

Buffed

Razorback

HVK-30

Dingo

KRM-262

Argus

Locus

37.11.18.4 – Nov. 25, 2015

Higher specialist earning power in Search & Destroy

Hardwired has been buffed to better counter Sixth Sense perk

Fix for a spawn issue for when waiting to select class

Stat losses for Arena when quitting games

Fixes for issues when prestiging weapons

More

Official patch notes will be released during an actual major patch update, which we will recap in a future article. Until then, we will continue to update this article for all November hotfixes.

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